ever use windows? if you did, you'd know about [windows-key]+F. That's how you do all those searches in explorer.
Still not as easy as typing 'locate '. And not anywhere near as capable. There's no regexp support for instance.
batch remaing? get a batch rename utility. Difference between windows explorer and bash here: windows doesn't come bundled with the free utility you need to do batch renaming... and its faster and easier.
The difference between windows and linux here is that linux empowers you to build your own utilities quickly and easily.
moving an explorer window is SUCH A HASSLE compared to typing out long commands? I think you linux geeks just suck at using the mouse.
You underestimate the detrimental effect context switches have on concentration. When I'm playing a game, sure I can use the mouse no problem. Whether it's an FPS or RTS, mousing isn't a difficult skill. But switching from typing to mousing over and over and over again really grates on one after a while.
Once you learn the shell, you realize that you could have been solving problems with it every day all along. It's really not an esoteric skill at all. There's nothing particularly specialized about launching programs or copying files.
Oh, and once you know how to solve those problems, people know somehow. They will bring their problems to you, and you will solve them in a line or two of shell. And this doesn't happen once or twice a year, but all the time.
I've been a big fan of ZFS for years and it's a shame that it never really made it outside of its IP-walled garden, as it could have become the defacto filesystem for Linux a long time ago.
Wouldn't the high RAM requirements of ZFS make it a poor choice for a generic filesystem?
Because the command line is vastly superior to something like Windows Explorer for file management. Suppose you want to delete everything from a directory that was created in the past 24 hours. How would you do that with Explorer? Or if you want to find all the TIFF files under a tree, and move them to a single directory? Or even just batch renaming? How do you do that with Explorer?
But that's complex stuff. What if I just want to move a file from one folder to another. Unless the two folders share the same parent, I need two Explorer windows open, and I have to jockey their position around so I can drag & drop. That, or I have to find one of my folders in that hideous tree dialog on the left. If I'm lucky, I won't have to scroll it, but I usually do. With the CLI, it's one window, one command.
Suppose I forget the full path of the directory I wanted to use. With a GUI, I have to open yet another window, move my hands to the keyboard to type my search query, and then grab the mouse again. With the CLI it's just another command, same window.
The shell is so superior to the GUI for file management, that once you get used to it you can't go back. I install cygwin on every Windows PC I have to use simply so I don't have to use Explorer.
For most people, the productivity bottleneck isn't the time spent moving hands to and from the keyboard; it's having to memorize 1000 commands to use the damn thing.
You could say the same thing about the English language. If complexity was a barrier, we'd all be pointing and grunting. But it turns out that the human brain has evolved for language, because language is empowering. Learing shell syntax is similarly empowering.
We all speak English. That's pretty fucking arcane and complex. "mount -o loop image.iso/mountpoint" isn't any more arcane and complex than "loopback mount this image here".
And it's more convenient than using the GUI. Since you're managing files, you probably have a terminal open already. So it's really just a matter of typing the mount command. You don't even have to take your hands off the keyboard.
"shuffle" is not a cryptographically secure algorithm. If your encryption is seeded with sufficiently random data, then the encrypted data will be indistinguishable from random.
Nature is truly random, but there are different types and degrees of randomness. If the noise in the LSB tends to be Brownian and you replace it with white noise, that's going to be detectable.
Easy. Send a payload that has some randomness to it. For example, a JPEG will have mostly random least significant bits. So now you take your encrypted data, which looks like random data, and replace the random LSBs in the JPG with your encrypted data. This is still vulnerable to statistical analysis, because little in nature is truly as random as random data is. But it raises the bar.
Note that for the hardware/software developers - hobbyist or professional - there will be a developer switch, to turn off security and allow you to load unsigned/unapproved programs and drivers.
Do you have evidence that this will be the case, or is it just wishful thinking? What are the chances that I'll be charged extra for a developer's unit?
But continuing to allow people to irresponsibly breed is also not working.
The birth rate in most developed countries is decreasing. Not because of any policy mandate, but because the people choose it. We need to figure out what they're doing and copy it.
What they're doing is educating their people, and providing opportunities for them. Educated people have fewer children. Moderately well off people have fewer children.
What we're doing in the US is the exact opposite. We're cutting education, we're expanding economic opportunities for the rich and not the lower classes. And when 30 years of ever increasing inequality bear fruit in social problems, conservatives will blame the very people they refused to help.
I never said I wasn't an asshole. I'm pretty sure I am. Most people are. You're an asshole too. You really like putting words in other peoples mouths.
Nothing you said changes the fact that the fair market price for a copy of a digital item is zero. You can either adapt to this, and start charging for scarce quantities, like creator time, or you can sacrifice innumerable civil liberties an a hopless attempt to turn back the clock.
Whether I'm an asshole or not doesn't matter. The world is full of assholes who will pirate. You're not going to get rid of them. Adapt or die, that's your choice.
You can either help pay for the lower classes to be educated, or you can deal with the consequences of having large numbers of uneducated unemployable people, and all the social problems that come with that. Which do you really think is better for you?
I choose not to have kids either. But I understand that I'm going to be a lot better off if the youth I have to deal with in the future are in school and not on the streets. If I send them to school now, I can live off of their tax dollars later. If I don't send them to school now, I'll be paying for their incarceration into the foreseeable future.
Investing in the society in which you live is a rational self-interested decision.
I think people will pay a little more if they have a better experience.
The better experience is online. In a B&M store, first I have to get off my ass and actually spend time at the store. That's one big demerit. Then, once I find the item I want I have no opportunity to price check other vendors or read reviews. That's another big demerit.
What better experience do the B&M have to offer? They can't beat the price online. They can't beat the convenience online. They only exist for those who can't wait 5 days for a part. In 99% of situations, I'd rather wait 5 days than make a special trip.
Of course, you're never going to hear about people who didn't get a job because of what HR found on Facebook. And if I hacked your credit card account with your mothers maiden name that I got off of your facebook page, how would you know? But you do, or at least I do, hear complaints about Facebook being used in divorce settlements. Or even just posting your vacation plans on Facebook can lead to your house getting burlarized.
âoewell, they are just stupid.. if only we could explain it to them in the right way..â because they have a valid opinion. Theyâ(TM)ve chosen to live a certain way, and privacy is not a priority to them.
We can tell this is not the case, because when people get bitten by the obvious consequences of surrendering their privacy, they complain. If they knew and expected those consequences, they wouldn't be bothered when it happens. And yet we still hear stupid people complain about how facebook shared their data in a way they don't approve of. Tough shit, that's what you signed up for.
The vast majority of people are too stupid to see the difference. That doesn't mean there's not an important difference. If the vast majority of people jumped off a cliff, would you too?
Here's one showing that CBT (which is lauded as the most empirically supported therapy) does not work on depression, but has some effects on anxiety. They correct for the file drawer problem, the FDA does not, BTW.
You're right, your article does show that prozac has effects on the most severe patients. But it also shows that at least half of the patients with major depressive disorder a do not have severe enough symptoms to experience any benefit from Prozac.
As someone in the field let me assure you that there is well-controlled research out there that has found clinically significant improvement in client functioning due to talk therapy.
I would love to see the data. Can you provide a literature reference?
Also, the best predictor of positive outcomes from treatment/therapy is the quality of the relationship between the client and the therapist. This has been studied and confirmed ad nauseum.
Sure, and if the patient doesn't expect to get better, what is his relationship with his therapist going to be like?
National defense/security, for example. The problem is that any time they want to go off the record, they'll just claim "national security" whether it is true or not.
Exactly. Secrecy itself damages our national security. Given that our own government is always a bigger threat than external threats (they're right here among us, and they have all the guns), it doesn't make sense to damage our national security in the name of national security.
Unfortunately, not everyone is as awesome as you. While they may not deserve a job, they're not going to go away. Would you rather have shitty people doing marginally useful work, or would you rather they sit around with nothing to do but be jealous and spiteful of your success? Which benefits you more?
Closed door meetings are always inappropriate. Everything Congress does should be a part of the public record. That includes meetings with lobbyists. Doing Congressional business off the record (by which I mean, unrecorded) should be a criminal offense. Same goes for the police and every other government employee.
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ever use windows? if you did, you'd know about [windows-key]+F. That's how you do all those searches in explorer.
Still not as easy as typing 'locate '. And not anywhere near as capable. There's no regexp support for instance.
batch remaing? get a batch rename utility. Difference between windows explorer and bash here: windows doesn't come bundled with the free utility you need to do batch renaming... and its faster and easier.
The difference between windows and linux here is that linux empowers you to build your own utilities quickly and easily.
moving an explorer window is SUCH A HASSLE compared to typing out long commands? I think you linux geeks just suck at using the mouse.
You underestimate the detrimental effect context switches have on concentration. When I'm playing a game, sure I can use the mouse no problem. Whether it's an FPS or RTS, mousing isn't a difficult skill. But switching from typing to mousing over and over and over again really grates on one after a while.
Once you learn the shell, you realize that you could have been solving problems with it every day all along. It's really not an esoteric skill at all. There's nothing particularly specialized about launching programs or copying files.
Oh, and once you know how to solve those problems, people know somehow. They will bring their problems to you, and you will solve them in a line or two of shell. And this doesn't happen once or twice a year, but all the time.
Shell is as empowering in the computing domain as speech is empowering in the social domain.
I've been a big fan of ZFS for years and it's a shame that it never really made it outside of its IP-walled garden, as it could have become the defacto filesystem for Linux a long time ago.
Wouldn't the high RAM requirements of ZFS make it a poor choice for a generic filesystem?
That's your fault for giving your users the permissions to install software on your computers.
Because the command line is vastly superior to something like Windows Explorer for file management. Suppose you want to delete everything from a directory that was created in the past 24 hours. How would you do that with Explorer? Or if you want to find all the TIFF files under a tree, and move them to a single directory? Or even just batch renaming? How do you do that with Explorer?
But that's complex stuff. What if I just want to move a file from one folder to another. Unless the two folders share the same parent, I need two Explorer windows open, and I have to jockey their position around so I can drag & drop. That, or I have to find one of my folders in that hideous tree dialog on the left. If I'm lucky, I won't have to scroll it, but I usually do. With the CLI, it's one window, one command.
Suppose I forget the full path of the directory I wanted to use. With a GUI, I have to open yet another window, move my hands to the keyboard to type my search query, and then grab the mouse again. With the CLI it's just another command, same window.
The shell is so superior to the GUI for file management, that once you get used to it you can't go back. I install cygwin on every Windows PC I have to use simply so I don't have to use Explorer.
For most people, the productivity bottleneck isn't the time spent moving hands to and from the keyboard; it's having to memorize 1000 commands to use the damn thing.
You could say the same thing about the English language. If complexity was a barrier, we'd all be pointing and grunting. But it turns out that the human brain has evolved for language, because language is empowering. Learing shell syntax is similarly empowering.
We all speak English. That's pretty fucking arcane and complex. "mount -o loop image.iso /mountpoint" isn't any more arcane and complex than "loopback mount this image here".
And it's more convenient than using the GUI. Since you're managing files, you probably have a terminal open already. So it's really just a matter of typing the mount command. You don't even have to take your hands off the keyboard.
"shuffle" is not a cryptographically secure algorithm. If your encryption is seeded with sufficiently random data, then the encrypted data will be indistinguishable from random.
Nature is truly random, but there are different types and degrees of randomness. If the noise in the LSB tends to be Brownian and you replace it with white noise, that's going to be detectable.
Easy. Send a payload that has some randomness to it. For example, a JPEG will have mostly random least significant bits. So now you take your encrypted data, which looks like random data, and replace the random LSBs in the JPG with your encrypted data. This is still vulnerable to statistical analysis, because little in nature is truly as random as random data is. But it raises the bar.
Note that for the hardware/software developers - hobbyist or professional - there will be a developer switch, to turn off security and allow you to load unsigned/unapproved programs and drivers.
Do you have evidence that this will be the case, or is it just wishful thinking? What are the chances that I'll be charged extra for a developer's unit?
I think they've got the relationship wrong. The number of 'o's is inversely proportional to the IQ of the target audience.
And directly proportional to their proximity to a cat.
But continuing to allow people to irresponsibly breed is also not working.
The birth rate in most developed countries is decreasing. Not because of any policy mandate, but because the people choose it. We need to figure out what they're doing and copy it.
What they're doing is educating their people, and providing opportunities for them. Educated people have fewer children. Moderately well off people have fewer children.
What we're doing in the US is the exact opposite. We're cutting education, we're expanding economic opportunities for the rich and not the lower classes. And when 30 years of ever increasing inequality bear fruit in social problems, conservatives will blame the very people they refused to help.
I never said I wasn't an asshole. I'm pretty sure I am. Most people are. You're an asshole too. You really like putting words in other peoples mouths.
Nothing you said changes the fact that the fair market price for a copy of a digital item is zero. You can either adapt to this, and start charging for scarce quantities, like creator time, or you can sacrifice innumerable civil liberties an a hopless attempt to turn back the clock.
Whether I'm an asshole or not doesn't matter. The world is full of assholes who will pirate. You're not going to get rid of them. Adapt or die, that's your choice.
You can either help pay for the lower classes to be educated, or you can deal with the consequences of having large numbers of uneducated unemployable people, and all the social problems that come with that. Which do you really think is better for you?
I choose not to have kids either. But I understand that I'm going to be a lot better off if the youth I have to deal with in the future are in school and not on the streets. If I send them to school now, I can live off of their tax dollars later. If I don't send them to school now, I'll be paying for their incarceration into the foreseeable future.
Investing in the society in which you live is a rational self-interested decision.
I think people will pay a little more if they have a better experience.
The better experience is online. In a B&M store, first I have to get off my ass and actually spend time at the store. That's one big demerit. Then, once I find the item I want I have no opportunity to price check other vendors or read reviews. That's another big demerit.
What better experience do the B&M have to offer? They can't beat the price online. They can't beat the convenience online. They only exist for those who can't wait 5 days for a part. In 99% of situations, I'd rather wait 5 days than make a special trip.
They *do* know those consequences, they just expect them not to happen
Like I said, stupidity.
Of course, you're never going to hear about people who didn't get a job because of what HR found on Facebook. And if I hacked your credit card account with your mothers maiden name that I got off of your facebook page, how would you know? But you do, or at least I do, hear complaints about Facebook being used in divorce settlements. Or even just posting your vacation plans on Facebook can lead to your house getting burlarized.
âoewell, they are just stupid.. if only we could explain it to them in the right way..â because they have a valid opinion. Theyâ(TM)ve chosen to live a certain way, and privacy is not a priority to them.
We can tell this is not the case, because when people get bitten by the obvious consequences of surrendering their privacy, they complain. If they knew and expected those consequences, they wouldn't be bothered when it happens. And yet we still hear stupid people complain about how facebook shared their data in a way they don't approve of. Tough shit, that's what you signed up for.
The vast majority of people are too stupid to see the difference. That doesn't mean there's not an important difference. If the vast majority of people jumped off a cliff, would you too?
Here's one showing that CBT (which is lauded as the most empirically supported therapy) does not work on depression, but has some effects on anxiety. They correct for the file drawer problem, the FDA does not, BTW.
You're right, your article does show that prozac has effects on the most severe patients. But it also shows that at least half of the patients with major depressive disorder a do not have severe enough symptoms to experience any benefit from Prozac.
As someone in the field let me assure you that there is well-controlled research out there that has found clinically significant improvement in client functioning due to talk therapy.
I would love to see the data. Can you provide a literature reference?
Also, the best predictor of positive outcomes from treatment/therapy is the quality of the relationship between the client and the therapist. This has been studied and confirmed ad nauseum.
Sure, and if the patient doesn't expect to get better, what is his relationship with his therapist going to be like?
National defense/security, for example. The problem is that any time they want to go off the record, they'll just claim "national security" whether it is true or not.
Exactly. Secrecy itself damages our national security. Given that our own government is always a bigger threat than external threats (they're right here among us, and they have all the guns), it doesn't make sense to damage our national security in the name of national security.
Unfortunately, not everyone is as awesome as you. While they may not deserve a job, they're not going to go away. Would you rather have shitty people doing marginally useful work, or would you rather they sit around with nothing to do but be jealous and spiteful of your success? Which benefits you more?
Closed door meetings are always inappropriate. Everything Congress does should be a part of the public record. That includes meetings with lobbyists. Doing Congressional business off the record (by which I mean, unrecorded) should be a criminal offense. Same goes for the police and every other government employee.